In general, the electronic text represents the edited text. Compound words have, however, been hyphenated after CELT practice and this involves a departure from Thurneysen's practice. The text has been carefully collated with the diplomatic edition: R. I. Best and M. A. O'Brien, The Book of Leinster ii (Dublin: Institute for Advanced Studies 1956) 469–470, the readings of which have been preferred to those of Thurneysen. Thurneysen's macrons have been retained except where they are manifestly misplaced. Length-marks and macrons have been placed over the historically long vowels in the case of dipthongs. Thurneysen's æ-ligatures and &eogon; have not been retained but rather the usage of the diplomatic edition has been followed. The lineation of the diplomatic edition has been supplied. The emendation of line 14618 proposed by the diplomatic editors has been retained in preference to that of Thurneysen. Thurneysen renders & as et; this usage has not been retained.

Quotations are rendered q.

CELT practice

div0=the whole tale.

Names of persons (given names), and places are tagged. Terms for
cultural and social roles are tagged. Numbers are tagged.

The n attribute of each text in this corpus carries a
unique identifying number for the whole text.

The title of the text is held as the first head
element within each text.

div0 is reserved for the
text (whether in one volume or many).

The numbered page breaks and line breaks provide a canonical reference.